Discuss the three standards used in determining death according to the Texas Health and Safety Code
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The following must be in the answer:
a. A person is dead, when according to ordinary standards of medical practice, there is irreversible cessation of the person's spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions.
b. If artificial means of support preclude a determination that a person's spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions have ceased, the person is dead when, in the announced opinion of a physician, according to ordinary standards of medical practice, there is irreversible cessation of all spontaneous brain function. Death occurs when the relevant functions cease.
c. Death must be pronounced before artificial means of supporting a person's respiratory and circulatory functions are terminated.
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